[muglo] Re: Portable Hand Scanners
- From: Ilbert Walker <walker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:46:19 -0500
Thanks Tee
Do you still use them ? Is there any alternative for this particular
usage?
Where would l look in London - and what brand name or cost ?
Ilbert
On 12 Feb 2004, at 11:35 PM, Tee Cashmore wrote:
> Ilbert Walker wrote:
>
>> Many years ago I seem to remember there was marketed a portable
>> handheld scanner (for the Mac?) with which you could scan , say, a
>> newspaper or magazine column or book paragraph , and then dump it into
>> a word processor. A sort of portable 'coupon clipper' for info
>> addicts.
>>
>> Does anyone use one of these ? - or know anything about their current
>> availability, source, cost etc ?? Battery or power operated ?
>>
>> I seem to remember one of the problems related to a restricted width,
>> which entailed having to
>> 'electronically stitch' two columns together. Can they also input
>> graphics or photos ?
>>
>> Obviously not a substitute for a flatbed page scanner, but easier to
>> carry around, and for capturing small amounts of page information.
>>
>> Google didn't provide me much info - anyone else out there ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ilbert
>>
> Actually I have two of them, us Apple IIGS guys got them before the big
> guys, but the only difference in the end was software. The best ones
> were called "Quickie" scanners & one of the disadvantages was that you
> had to sort of teach it to recognize some letters. Yes, you also had to
> stitch columns together, but that was pretty easy. Pics were quite
> good.
> TTFN,
> TeeC
>
>
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